Modeling of Scale-Dependent Bacterial Growth by Chemical Kinetics Approach
Figure 1
Sketch of typical SA/V-dependent EPEC growth curves ( = total bacteria concentration): lag phase and exponential growth independent of the SA/V and later stage growth depending on the SA/V. If the SA/V increases also the rate of the later stage growth increases. Note that under common laboratory culturing conditions the SA/V remains relatively small so that the later stage growth may look stationary (green curve) which, however, does not appear to be the case at higher SA/V ratios (blue curve).
